Part of a series, this book tells the story of how the earth works: how its cracked surface is constantly on the move, how the oceans widen and the continents collide, how volcanoes create new rocks while weather and the agents of erosion destroy and re-form the existing land. It explores the enormous raneg ofnlife that the Earth can support, from the species found in deserts and in high mountainous regions to the creatures that can survive in the darki depths of the oceans. there studies of the different rockas and their ...
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Part of a series, this book tells the story of how the earth works: how its cracked surface is constantly on the move, how the oceans widen and the continents collide, how volcanoes create new rocks while weather and the agents of erosion destroy and re-form the existing land. It explores the enormous raneg ofnlife that the Earth can support, from the species found in deserts and in high mountainous regions to the creatures that can survive in the darki depths of the oceans. there studies of the different rockas and their conditions of formation , of rivers and the effect of ise and water on the ladnscape and the stopry of the Earth's histpry as revealed by the evidence of fossil remians and rock formations.
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